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NAME
       mysqldump - a database backup program

SYNOPSIS
       mysqldump [options] [db_name [tbl_name ...]]

DESCRIPTION
       The mysqldump client utility performs logical backups, producing a set of SQL statements that
       can be executed to reproduce the original database object definitions and table data. It
       dumps one or more MySQL databases for backup or transfer to another SQL server. The mysqldump
       command can also generate output in CSV, other delimited text, or XML format.

           Tip
           Consider using the MySQL Shell dump utilities[1], which provide parallel dumping with
           multiple threads, file compression, and progress information display, as well as cloud
           features such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage streaming, and MySQL HeatWave
           Service compatibility checks and modifications. Dumps can be easily imported into a MySQL
           Server instance or a MySQL HeatWave Service DB System using the MySQL Shell load dump
           utilities[2]. Installation instructions for MySQL Shell can be found here[3].

       •   Performance and Scalability Considerations

       •   Invocation Syntax

       •   Option Syntax - Alphabetical Summary

       •   Connection Options

       •   Option-File Options

       •   DDL Options

       •   Debug Options

       •   Help Options

       •   Internationalization Options

       •   Replication Options

       •   Format Options

       •   Filtering Options

       •   Performance Options

       •   Transactional Options

       •   Option Groups

       •   Examples

       •   Restrictions

       mysqldump requires at least the SELECT privilege for dumped tables, SHOW VIEW for dumped
       views, TRIGGER for dumped triggers, LOCK TABLES if the --single-transaction option is not
       used, PROCESS (as of MySQL 8.0.21) if the --no-tablespaces option is not used, and (as of
       MySQL 8.0.32) the RELOAD or FLUSH_TABLES privilege with --single-transaction if both
       gtid_mode=ON and gtid_purged=ON|AUTO. Certain options might require other privileges as noted
       in the option descriptions.

       To reload a dump file, you must have the privileges required to execute the statements that
       it contains, such as the appropriate CREATE privileges for objects created by those
       statements.

       mysqldump output can include ALTER DATABASE statements that change the database collation.
       These may be used when dumping stored programs to preserve their character encodings. To
       reload a dump file containing such statements, the ALTER privilege for the affected database
       is required.

           Note
           A dump made using PowerShell on Windows with output redirection creates a file that has
           UTF-16 encoding:

               mysqldump [options] > dump.sql

           However, UTF-16 is not permitted as a connection character set (see the section called
           “Impermissible Client Character Sets”), so the dump file cannot be loaded correctly. To
           work around this issue, use the --result-file option, which creates the output in ASCII
           format:

               mysqldump [options] --result-file=dump.sql

       It is not recommended to load a dump file when GTIDs are enabled on the server
       (gtid_mode=ON), if your dump file includes system tables.  mysqldump issues DML instructions
       for the system tables which use the non-transactional MyISAM storage engine, and this
       combination is not permitted when GTIDs are enabled.  Performance and Scalability
       Considerations

       mysqldump advantages include the convenience and flexibility of viewing or even editing the
       output before restoring. You can clone databases for development and DBA work, or produce
       slight variations of an existing database for testing. It is not intended as a fast or
       scalable solution for backing up substantial amounts of data. With large data sizes, even if
       the backup step takes a reasonable time, restoring the data can be very slow because
       replaying the SQL statements involves disk I/O for insertion, index creation, and so on.

       For large-scale backup and restore, a physical backup is more appropriate, to copy the data
       files in their original format so that they can be restored quickly.

       If your tables are primarily InnoDB tables, or if you have a mix of InnoDB and MyISAM tables,
       consider using mysqlbackup, which is available as part of MySQL Enterprise. This tool
       provides high performance for InnoDB backups with minimal disruption; it can also back up
       tables from MyISAM and other storage engines; it also provides a number of convenient options
       to accommodate different backup scenarios. See Section 32.1, “MySQL Enterprise Backup
       Overview”.

       mysqldump can retrieve and dump table contents row by row, or it can retrieve the entire
       content from a table and buffer it in memory before dumping it. Buffering in memory can be a
       problem if you are dumping large tables. To dump tables row by row, use the --quick option
       (or --opt, which enables --quick). The --opt option (and hence --quick) is enabled by
       default, so to enable memory buffering, use --skip-quick.

       If you are using a recent version of mysqldump to generate a dump to be reloaded into a very
       old MySQL server, use the --skip-opt option instead of the --opt or --extended-insert option.

       For additional information about mysqldump, see Section 9.4, “Using mysqldump for Backups”.
       Invocation Syntax

       There are in general three ways to use mysqldump—in order to dump a set of one or more
       tables, a set of one or more complete databases, or an entire MySQL server—as shown here:

           mysqldump [options] db_name [tbl_name ...]
           mysqldump [options] --databases db_name ...
           mysqldump [options] --all-databases

       To dump entire databases, do not name any tables following db_name, or use the --databases or
       --all-databases option.

       To see a list of the options your version of mysqldump supports, issue the command mysqldump
       --help.  Option Syntax - Alphabetical Summary

       mysqldump supports the following options, which can be specified on the command line or in
       the [mysqldump] and [client] groups of an option file. For information about option files
       used by MySQL programs, see Section 6.2.2.2, “Using Option Files”.  Connection Options

       The mysqldump command logs into a MySQL server to extract information. The following options
       specify how to connect to the MySQL server, either on the same machine or a remote system.

       •   --bind-address=ip_address

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --bind-address=ip_address │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
           On a computer having multiple network interfaces, use this option to select which
           interface to use for connecting to the MySQL server.

       •   --compress, -C

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --compress[={OFF|ON}] │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
           │Deprecated          │ 8.0.18                │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Boolean               │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ OFF                   │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘
           Compress all information sent between the client and the server if possible. See
           Section 6.2.8, “Connection Compression Control”.

           As of MySQL 8.0.18, this option is deprecated. Expect it to be removed in a future
           version of MySQL. See the section called “Configuring Legacy Connection Compression”.

       •   --compression-algorithms=value

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --compression-algorithms=value │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
           │Introduced          │ 8.0.18                         │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Set                            │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ uncompressed                   │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
           │Valid Values        │                                │
           │                    │            zlib                │
           │                    │                                │
           │                    │            zstd                │
           │                    │                                │
           │                    │            uncompressed        │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘
           The permitted compression algorithms for connections to the server. The available
           algorithms are the same as for the protocol_compression_algorithms system variable. The
           default value is uncompressed.

           For more information, see Section 6.2.8, “Connection Compression Control”.

           This option was added in MySQL 8.0.18.

       •   --default-auth=plugin

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --default-auth=plugin │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘
           A hint about which client-side authentication plugin to use. See Section 8.2.17,
           “Pluggable Authentication”.

       •   --enable-cleartext-plugin

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --enable-cleartext-plugin │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Boolean                   │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ FALSE                     │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
           Enable the mysql_clear_password cleartext authentication plugin. (See Section 8.4.1.4,
           “Client-Side Cleartext Pluggable Authentication”.)

       •   --get-server-public-key

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --get-server-public-key │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Boolean                 │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
           Request from the server the public key required for RSA key pair-based password exchange.
           This option applies to clients that authenticate with the caching_sha2_password
           authentication plugin. For that plugin, the server does not send the public key unless
           requested. This option is ignored for accounts that do not authenticate with that plugin.
           It is also ignored if RSA-based password exchange is not used, as is the case when the
           client connects to the server using a secure connection.

           If --server-public-key-path=file_name is given and specifies a valid public key file, it
           takes precedence over --get-server-public-key.

           For information about the caching_sha2_password plugin, see Section 8.4.1.2, “Caching
           SHA-2 Pluggable Authentication”.

       •   --host=host_name, -h host_name

           ┌────────────────────┬────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --host │
           └────────────────────┴────────┘
           Dump data from the MySQL server on the given host. The default host is localhost.

       •   --login-path=name

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --login-path=name │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String            │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────┘
           Read options from the named login path in the .mylogin.cnf login path file. A “login
           path” is an option group containing options that specify which MySQL server to connect to
           and which account to authenticate as. To create or modify a login path file, use the
           mysql_config_editor utility. See mysql_config_editor(1).

           For additional information about this and other option-file options, see Section 6.2.2.3,
           “Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Handling”.

       •   --password[=password], -p[password]

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --password[=password] │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘
           The password of the MySQL account used for connecting to the server. The password value
           is optional. If not given, mysqldump prompts for one. If given, there must be no space
           between --password= or -p and the password following it. If no password option is
           specified, the default is to send no password.

           Specifying a password on the command line should be considered insecure. To avoid giving
           the password on the command line, use an option file. See Section 8.1.2.1, “End-User
           Guidelines for Password Security”.

           To explicitly specify that there is no password and that mysqldump should not prompt for
           one, use the --skip-password option.

       •   --password1[=pass_val] The password for multifactor authentication factor 1 of the MySQL
           account used for connecting to the server. The password value is optional. If not given,
           mysqldump prompts for one. If given, there must be no space between --password1= and the
           password following it. If no password option is specified, the default is to send no
           password.

           Specifying a password on the command line should be considered insecure. To avoid giving
           the password on the command line, use an option file. See Section 8.1.2.1, “End-User
           Guidelines for Password Security”.

           To explicitly specify that there is no password and that mysqldump should not prompt for
           one, use the --skip-password1 option.

           --password1 and --password are synonymous, as are --skip-password1 and --skip-password.

       •   --password2[=pass_val] The password for multifactor authentication factor 2 of the MySQL
           account used for connecting to the server. The semantics of this option are similar to
           the semantics for --password1; see the description of that option for details.

       •   --password3[=pass_val] The password for multifactor authentication factor 3 of the MySQL
           account used for connecting to the server. The semantics of this option are similar to
           the semantics for --password1; see the description of that option for details.

       •   --pipe, -W

           ┌────────────────────┬────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --pipe │
           ├────────────────────┼────────┤
           │Type                │ String │
           └────────────────────┴────────┘
           On Windows, connect to the server using a named pipe. This option applies only if the
           server was started with the named_pipe system variable enabled to support named-pipe
           connections. In addition, the user making the connection must be a member of the Windows
           group specified by the named_pipe_full_access_group system variable.

       •   --plugin-authentication-kerberos-client-mode=value

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --plugin-authentication-kerberos- │
           │                    │ client-mode                       │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────┤
           │Introduced          │ 8.0.32                            │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                            │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ SSPI                              │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────┤
           │Valid Values        │ GSSAPI                            │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────┘
           On Windows, the authentication_kerberos_client authentication plugin supports this plugin
           option. It provides two possible values that the client user can set at runtime: SSPI and
           GSSAPI.

           The default value for the client-side plugin option uses Security Support Provider
           Interface (SSPI), which is capable of acquiring credentials from the Windows in-memory
           cache. Alternatively, the client user can select a mode that supports Generic Security
           Service Application Program Interface (GSSAPI) through the MIT Kerberos library on
           Windows. GSSAPI is capable of acquiring cached credentials previously generated by using
           the kinit command.

           For more information, see Commands for Windows Clients in GSSAPI Mode.

       •   --plugin-dir=dir_name

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --plugin-dir=dir_name │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Directory name        │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘
           The directory in which to look for plugins. Specify this option if the --default-auth
           option is used to specify an authentication plugin but mysqldump does not find it. See
           Section 8.2.17, “Pluggable Authentication”.

       •   --port=port_num, -P port_num

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --port=port_num │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Numeric         │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ 3306            │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────┘
           For TCP/IP connections, the port number to use.

       •   --protocol={TCP|SOCKET|PIPE|MEMORY}

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --protocol=type   │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String            │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ [see text]        │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────┤
           │Valid Values        │                   │
           │                    │            TCP    │
           │                    │                   │
           │                    │            SOCKET │
           │                    │                   │
           │                    │            PIPE   │
           │                    │                   │
           │                    │            MEMORY │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────┘
           The transport protocol to use for connecting to the server. It is useful when the other
           connection parameters normally result in use of a protocol other than the one you want.
           For details on the permissible values, see Section 6.2.7, “Connection Transport
           Protocols”.

       •   --server-public-key-path=file_name

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --server-public-key- │
           │                    │ path=file_name       │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ File name            │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
           The path name to a file in PEM format containing a client-side copy of the public key
           required by the server for RSA key pair-based password exchange. This option applies to
           clients that authenticate with the sha256_password or caching_sha2_password
           authentication plugin. This option is ignored for accounts that do not authenticate with
           one of those plugins. It is also ignored if RSA-based password exchange is not used, as
           is the case when the client connects to the server using a secure connection.

           If --server-public-key-path=file_name is given and specifies a valid public key file, it
           takes precedence over --get-server-public-key.

           For sha256_password, this option applies only if MySQL was built using OpenSSL.

           For information about the sha256_password and caching_sha2_password plugins, see
           Section 8.4.1.3, “SHA-256 Pluggable Authentication”, and Section 8.4.1.2, “Caching SHA-2
           Pluggable Authentication”.

       •   --socket=path, -S path

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --socket={file_name|pipe_name} │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                         │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘
           For connections to localhost, the Unix socket file to use, or, on Windows, the name of
           the named pipe to use.

           On Windows, this option applies only if the server was started with the named_pipe system
           variable enabled to support named-pipe connections. In addition, the user making the
           connection must be a member of the Windows group specified by the
           named_pipe_full_access_group system variable.

       •   --ssl* Options that begin with --ssl specify whether to connect to the server using
           encryption and indicate where to find SSL keys and certificates. See the section called
           “Command Options for Encrypted Connections”.

       •   --ssl-fips-mode={OFF|ON|STRICT}

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --ssl-fips-mode={OFF|ON|STRICT} │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
           │Deprecated          │ 8.0.34                          │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Enumeration                     │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ OFF                             │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
           │Valid Values        │                                 │
           │                    │            OFF                  │
           │                    │                                 │
           │                    │            ON                   │
           │                    │                                 │
           │                    │            STRICT               │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘
           Controls whether to enable FIPS mode on the client side. The --ssl-fips-mode option
           differs from other --ssl-xxx options in that it is not used to establish encrypted
           connections, but rather to affect which cryptographic operations to permit. See
           Section 8.8, “FIPS Support”.

           These --ssl-fips-mode values are permitted:

           •   OFF: Disable FIPS mode.

           •   ON: Enable FIPS mode.

           •   STRICT: Enable “strict” FIPS mode.


               Note
               If the OpenSSL FIPS Object Module is not available, the only permitted value for
               --ssl-fips-mode is OFF. In this case, setting --ssl-fips-mode to ON or STRICT causes
               the client to produce a warning at startup and to operate in non-FIPS mode.
           As of MySQL 8.0.34, this option is deprecated. Expect it to be removed in a future
           version of MySQL.

       •   --tls-ciphersuites=ciphersuite_list

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --tls-                        │
           │                    │ ciphersuites=ciphersuite_list │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
           │Introduced          │ 8.0.16                        │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                        │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘
           The permissible ciphersuites for encrypted connections that use TLSv1.3. The value is a
           list of one or more colon-separated ciphersuite names. The ciphersuites that can be named
           for this option depend on the SSL library used to compile MySQL. For details, see
           Section 8.3.2, “Encrypted Connection TLS Protocols and Ciphers”.

           This option was added in MySQL 8.0.16.

       •   --tls-version=protocol_list

           ┌─────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format      │ --tls-version=protocol_list              │
           ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                     │ String                                   │
           ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value (≥≥ 8.0.16) │                                          │
           │                         │            TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2,TLSv1.3 │
           │                         │            (OpenSSL 1.1.1 or             │
           │                         │            higher)                       │
           │                         │                                          │
           │                         │            TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2         │
           │                         │            (otherwise)                   │
           ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value (≤≤ 8.0.15) │ TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2                    │
           └─────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────┘
           The permissible TLS protocols for encrypted connections. The value is a list of one or
           more comma-separated protocol names. The protocols that can be named for this option
           depend on the SSL library used to compile MySQL. For details, see Section 8.3.2,
           “Encrypted Connection TLS Protocols and Ciphers”.

       •   --user=user_name, -u user_name

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --user=user_name │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String           │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
           The user name of the MySQL account to use for connecting to the server.

           If you are using the Rewriter plugin with MySQL 8.0.31 or later, you should grant this
           user the SKIP_QUERY_REWRITE privilege.

       •   --zstd-compression-level=level

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --zstd-compression-level=# │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
           │Introduced          │ 8.0.18                     │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Integer                    │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┘
           The compression level to use for connections to the server that use the zstd compression
           algorithm. The permitted levels are from 1 to 22, with larger values indicating
           increasing levels of compression. The default zstd compression level is 3. The
           compression level setting has no effect on connections that do not use zstd compression.

           For more information, see Section 6.2.8, “Connection Compression Control”.

           This option was added in MySQL 8.0.18.
       Option-File Options

       These options are used to control which option files to read.

       •   --defaults-extra-file=file_name

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --defaults-extra-file=file_name │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ File name                       │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘
           Read this option file after the global option file but (on Unix) before the user option
           file. If the file does not exist or is otherwise inaccessible, an error occurs. If
           file_name is not an absolute path name, it is interpreted relative to the current
           directory.

           For additional information about this and other option-file options, see Section 6.2.2.3,
           “Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Handling”.

       •   --defaults-file=file_name

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --defaults-file=file_name │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ File name                 │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
           Use only the given option file. If the file does not exist or is otherwise inaccessible,
           an error occurs. If file_name is not an absolute path name, it is interpreted relative to
           the current directory.

           Exception: Even with --defaults-file, client programs read .mylogin.cnf.

           For additional information about this and other option-file options, see Section 6.2.2.3,
           “Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Handling”.

       •   --defaults-group-suffix=str

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --defaults-group-suffix=str │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                      │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
           Read not only the usual option groups, but also groups with the usual names and a suffix
           of str. For example, mysqldump normally reads the [client] and [mysqldump] groups. If
           this option is given as --defaults-group-suffix=_other, mysqldump also reads the
           [client_other] and [mysqldump_other] groups.

           For additional information about this and other option-file options, see Section 6.2.2.3,
           “Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Handling”.

       •   --no-defaults

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --no-defaults │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────┘
           Do not read any option files. If program startup fails due to reading unknown options
           from an option file, --no-defaults can be used to prevent them from being read.

           The exception is that the .mylogin.cnf file is read in all cases, if it exists. This
           permits passwords to be specified in a safer way than on the command line even when
           --no-defaults is used. To create .mylogin.cnf, use the mysql_config_editor utility. See
           mysql_config_editor(1).

           For additional information about this and other option-file options, see Section 6.2.2.3,
           “Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Handling”.

       •   --print-defaults

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --print-defaults │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
           Print the program name and all options that it gets from option files.

           For additional information about this and other option-file options, see Section 6.2.2.3,
           “Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Handling”.
       DDL Options

       Usage scenarios for mysqldump include setting up an entire new MySQL instance (including
       database tables), and replacing data inside an existing instance with existing databases and
       tables. The following options let you specify which things to tear down and set up when
       restoring a dump, by encoding various DDL statements within the dump file.

       •   --add-drop-database

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --add-drop-database │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────────┘
           Write a DROP DATABASE statement before each CREATE DATABASE statement. This option is
           typically used in conjunction with the --all-databases or --databases option because no
           CREATE DATABASE statements are written unless one of those options is specified.

               Note
               In MySQL 8.0, the mysql schema is considered a system schema that cannot be dropped
               by end users. If --add-drop-database is used with --all-databases or with --databases
               where the list of schemas to be dumped includes mysql, the dump file contains a DROP
               DATABASE `mysql` statement that causes an error when the dump file is reloaded.

               Instead, to use --add-drop-database, use --databases with a list of schemas to be
               dumped, where the list does not include mysql.

       •   --add-drop-table

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --add-drop-table │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
           Write a DROP TABLE statement before each CREATE TABLE statement.

       •   --add-drop-trigger

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --add-drop-trigger │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────────┘
           Write a DROP TRIGGER statement before each CREATE TRIGGER statement.

       •   --all-tablespaces, -Y

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --all-tablespaces │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────┘
           Adds to a table dump all SQL statements needed to create any tablespaces used by an NDB
           table. This information is not otherwise included in the output from mysqldump. This
           option is currently relevant only to NDB Cluster tables.

       •   --no-create-db, -n

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --no-create-db │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────┘
           Suppress the CREATE DATABASE statements that are otherwise included in the output if the
           --databases or --all-databases option is given.

       •   --no-create-info, -t

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --no-create-info │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
           Do not write CREATE TABLE statements that create each dumped table.

               Note
               This option does not exclude statements creating log file groups or tablespaces from
               mysqldump output; however, you can use the --no-tablespaces option for this purpose.

       •   --no-tablespaces, -y

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --no-tablespaces │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
           This option suppresses all CREATE LOGFILE GROUP and CREATE TABLESPACE statements in the
           output of mysqldump.

       •   --replace

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --replace │
           └────────────────────┴───────────┘
           Write REPLACE statements rather than INSERT statements.
       Debug Options

       The following options print debugging information, encode debugging information in the dump
       file, or let the dump operation proceed regardless of potential problems.

       •   --allow-keywords

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --allow-keywords │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
           Permit creation of column names that are keywords. This works by prefixing each column
           name with the table name.

       •   --comments, -i

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --comments │
           └────────────────────┴────────────┘
           Write additional information in the dump file such as program version, server version,
           and host. This option is enabled by default. To suppress this additional information, use
           --skip-comments.

       •   --debug[=debug_options], -# [debug_options]

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --debug[=debug_options]    │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                     │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ d:t:o,/tmp/mysqldump.trace │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┘
           Write a debugging log. A typical debug_options string is d:t:o,file_name. The default
           value is d:t:o,/tmp/mysqldump.trace.

           This option is available only if MySQL was built using WITH_DEBUG. MySQL release binaries
           provided by Oracle are not built using this option.

       •   --debug-check

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --debug-check │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────┤
           │Type                │ Boolean       │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ FALSE         │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────┘
           Print some debugging information when the program exits.

           This option is available only if MySQL was built using WITH_DEBUG. MySQL release binaries
           provided by Oracle are not built using this option.

       •   --debug-info

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --debug-info │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────┤
           │Type                │ Boolean      │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ FALSE        │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────┘
           Print debugging information and memory and CPU usage statistics when the program exits.

           This option is available only if MySQL was built using WITH_DEBUG. MySQL release binaries
           provided by Oracle are not built using this option.

       •   --dump-date

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --dump-date │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────┤
           │Type                │ Boolean     │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ TRUE        │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────┘
           If the --comments option is given, mysqldump produces a comment at the end of the dump of
           the following form:

               -- Dump completed on DATE

           However, the date causes dump files taken at different times to appear to be different,
           even if the data are otherwise identical.  --dump-date and --skip-dump-date control
           whether the date is added to the comment. The default is --dump-date (include the date in
           the comment).  --skip-dump-date suppresses date printing.

       •   --force, -f

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --force │
           └────────────────────┴─────────┘
           Ignore all errors; continue even if an SQL error occurs during a table dump.

           One use for this option is to cause mysqldump to continue executing even when it
           encounters a view that has become invalid because the definition refers to a table that
           has been dropped. Without --force, mysqldump exits with an error message. With --force,
           mysqldump prints the error message, but it also writes an SQL comment containing the view
           definition to the dump output and continues executing.

           If the --ignore-error option is also given to ignore specific errors, --force takes
           precedence.

       •   --log-error=file_name

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --log-error=file_name │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ File name             │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘
           Log warnings and errors by appending them to the named file. The default is to do no
           logging.

       •   --skip-comments

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --skip-comments │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────┘
           See the description for the --comments option.

       •   --verbose, -v

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --verbose │
           └────────────────────┴───────────┘
           Verbose mode. Print more information about what the program does.
       Help Options

       The following options display information about the mysqldump command itself.

       •   --help, -?

           ┌────────────────────┬────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --help │
           └────────────────────┴────────┘
           Display a help message and exit.

       •   --version, -V

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --version │
           └────────────────────┴───────────┘
           Display version information and exit.
       Internationalization Options

       The following options change how the mysqldump command represents character data with
       national language settings.

       •   --character-sets-dir=dir_name

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --character-sets-dir=dir_name │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Directory name                │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘
           The directory where character sets are installed. See Section 12.15, “Character Set
           Configuration”.

       •   --default-character-set=charset_name

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --default-character- │
           │                    │ set=charset_name     │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String               │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ utf8                 │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
           Use charset_name as the default character set. See Section 12.15, “Character Set
           Configuration”. If no character set is specified, mysqldump uses utf8mb4.

       •   --no-set-names, -N

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --no-set-names │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────┤
           │Deprecated          │ Yes            │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────┘
           Turns off the --set-charset setting, the same as specifying --skip-set-charset.

       •   --set-charset

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --set-charset    │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────┤
           │Disabled by         │ skip-set-charset │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
           Write SET NAMES default_character_set to the output. This option is enabled by default.
           To suppress the SET NAMES statement, use --skip-set-charset.
       Replication Options

       The mysqldump command is frequently used to create an empty instance, or an instance
       including data, on a replica server in a replication configuration. The following options
       apply to dumping and restoring data on replication source servers and replicas.

       •   --apply-replica-statements

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --apply-replica-statements │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
           │Introduced          │ 8.0.26                     │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Boolean                    │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ FALSE                      │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┘
           From MySQL 8.0.26, use --apply-replica-statements, and before MySQL 8.0.26, use
           --apply-slave-statements. Both options have the same effect. For a replica dump produced
           with the --dump-replica or --dump-slave option, the options add a STOP REPLICA (or before
           MySQL 8.0.22, STOP SLAVE) statement before the statement with the binary log coordinates,
           and a START REPLICA statement at the end of the output.

       •   --apply-slave-statements

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --apply-slave-statements │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
           │Deprecated          │ 8.0.26                   │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Boolean                  │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ FALSE                    │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘
           Use this option before MySQL 8.0.26 rather than --apply-replica-statements. Both options
           have the same effect.

       •   --delete-source-logs

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --delete-source-logs │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
           │Introduced          │ 8.0.26               │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
           From MySQL 8.0.26, use --delete-source-logs, and before MySQL 8.0.26, use
           --delete-master-logs. Both options have the same effect. On a replication source server,
           the options delete the binary logs by sending a PURGE BINARY LOGS statement to the server
           after performing the dump operation. The options require the RELOAD privilege as well as
           privileges sufficient to execute that statement. The options automatically enable
           --source-data or --master-data.

       •   --delete-master-logs

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --delete-master-logs │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
           │Deprecated          │ 8.0.26               │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
           Use this option before MySQL 8.0.26 rather than --delete-source-logs. Both options have
           the same effect.

       •   --dump-replica[=value]

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --dump-replica[=value] │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────┤
           │Introduced          │ 8.0.26                 │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Numeric                │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ 1                      │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────┤
           │Valid Values        │                        │
           │                    │            1           │
           │                    │                        │
           │                    │            2           │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────────────┘
           From MySQL 8.0.26, use --dump-replica, and before MySQL 8.0.26, use --dump-slave. Both
           options have the same effect. The options are similar to --source-data, except that they
           are used to dump a replica server to produce a dump file that can be used to set up
           another server as a replica that has the same source as the dumped server. The options
           cause the dump output to include a CHANGE REPLICATION SOURCE TO statement (from MySQL
           8.0.23) or CHANGE MASTER TO statement (before MySQL 8.0.23) that indicates the binary log
           coordinates (file name and position) of the dumped replica's source. The CHANGE
           REPLICATION SOURCE TO statement reads the values of Relay_Master_Log_File and
           Exec_Master_Log_Pos from the SHOW REPLICA STATUS output and uses them for SOURCE_LOG_FILE
           and SOURCE_LOG_POS respectively. These are the replication source server coordinates from
           which the replica starts replicating.

               Note
               Inconsistencies in the sequence of transactions from the relay log which have been
               executed can cause the wrong position to be used. See Section 19.5.1.34, “Replication
               and Transaction Inconsistencies” for more information.
           --dump-replica or --dump-slave causes the coordinates from the source to be used rather
           than those of the dumped server, as is done by the --source-data or --master-data option.
           In addition, specifying this option causes the --source-data or --master-data option to
           be overridden, if used, and effectively ignored.

               Warning
               --dump-replica or --dump-slave should not be used if the server where the dump is
               going to be applied uses gtid_mode=ON and SOURCE_AUTO_POSITION=1 or
               MASTER_AUTO_POSITION=1.
           The option value is handled the same way as for --source-data. Setting no value or 1
           causes a CHANGE REPLICATION SOURCE TO statement (from MySQL 8.0.23) or CHANGE MASTER TO
           statement (before MySQL 8.0.23) to be written to the dump. Setting 2 causes the statement
           to be written but encased in SQL comments. It has the same effect as --source-data in
           terms of enabling or disabling other options and in how locking is handled.

           --dump-replica or --dump-slave causes mysqldump to stop the replication SQL thread before
           the dump and restart it again after.

           --dump-replica or --dump-slave sends a SHOW REPLICA STATUS statement to the server to
           obtain information, so they require privileges sufficient to execute that statement.

           --apply-replica-statements and --include-source-host-port options can be used in
           conjunction with --dump-replica or --dump-slave.

       •   --dump-slave[=value]

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --dump-slave[=value] │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
           │Deprecated          │ 8.0.26               │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Numeric              │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ 1                    │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
           │Valid Values        │                      │
           │                    │            1         │
           │                    │                      │
           │                    │            2         │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
           Use this option before MySQL 8.0.26 rather than --dump-replica. Both options have the
           same effect.

       •   --include-source-host-port

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --include-source-host-port │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
           │Introduced          │ 8.0.26                     │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Boolean                    │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ FALSE                      │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┘
           From MySQL 8.0.26, use --include-source-host-port, and before MySQL 8.0.26, use
           --include-master-host-port. Both options have the same effect. The options add the
           SOURCE_HOST | MASTER_HOST and SOURCE_PORT | MASTER_PORT options for the host name and
           TCP/IP port number of the replica's source, to the CHANGE REPLICATION SOURCE TO statement
           (from MySQL 8.0.23) or CHANGE MASTER TO statement (before MySQL 8.0.23) in a replica dump
           produced with the --dump-replica or --dump-slave option.

       •   --include-master-host-port

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --include-master-host-port │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
           │Deprecated          │ 8.0.26                     │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Boolean                    │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ FALSE                      │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┘
           Use this option before MySQL 8.0.26 rather than --include-source-host-port. Both options
           have the same effect.

       •   --source-data[=value]

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --source-data[=value] │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
           │Introduced          │ 8.0.26                │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Numeric               │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ 1                     │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
           │Valid Values        │                       │
           │                    │            1          │
           │                    │                       │
           │                    │            2          │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘
           From MySQL 8.0.26, use --source-data, and before MySQL 8.0.26, use --master-data. Both
           options have the same effect. The options are used to dump a replication source server to
           produce a dump file that can be used to set up another server as a replica of the source.
           The options cause the dump output to include a CHANGE REPLICATION SOURCE TO statement
           (from MySQL 8.0.23) or CHANGE MASTER TO statement (before MySQL 8.0.23) that indicates
           the binary log coordinates (file name and position) of the dumped server. These are the
           replication source server coordinates from which the replica should start replicating
           after you load the dump file into the replica.

           If the option value is 2, the CHANGE REPLICATION SOURCE TO | CHANGE MASTER TO statement
           is written as an SQL comment, and thus is informative only; it has no effect when the
           dump file is reloaded. If the option value is 1, the statement is not written as a
           comment and takes effect when the dump file is reloaded. If no option value is specified,
           the default value is 1.

           --source-data and --master-data send a SHOW MASTER STATUS statement to the server to
           obtain information, so they require privileges sufficient to execute that statement. This
           option also requires the RELOAD privilege and the binary log must be enabled.

           --source-data and --master-data automatically turn off --lock-tables. They also turn on
           --lock-all-tables, unless --single-transaction also is specified, in which case, a global
           read lock is acquired only for a short time at the beginning of the dump (see the
           description for --single-transaction). In all cases, any action on logs happens at the
           exact moment of the dump.

           It is also possible to set up a replica by dumping an existing replica of the source,
           using the --dump-replica or --dump-slave option, which overrides --source-data and
           --master-data and causes them to be ignored.

       •   --master-data[=value]

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --master-data[=value] │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
           │Deprecated          │ 8.0.26                │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Numeric               │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ 1                     │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
           │Valid Values        │                       │
           │                    │            1          │
           │                    │                       │
           │                    │            2          │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘
           Use this option before MySQL 8.0.26 rather than --source-data. Both options have the same
           effect.

       •   --set-gtid-purged=value

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --set-gtid-purged=value │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Enumeration             │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ AUTO                    │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
           │Valid Values        │                         │
           │                    │            OFF          │
           │                    │                         │
           │                    │            ON           │
           │                    │                         │
           │                    │            AUTO         │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
           This option is for servers that use GTID-based replication (gtid_mode=ON). It controls
           the inclusion of a SET @@GLOBAL.gtid_purged statement in the dump output, which updates
           the value of gtid_purged on a server where the dump file is reloaded, to add the GTID set
           from the source server's gtid_executed system variable.  gtid_purged holds the GTIDs of
           all transactions that have been applied on the server, but do not exist on any binary log
           file on the server.  mysqldump therefore adds the GTIDs for the transactions that were
           executed on the source server, so that the target server records these transactions as
           applied, although it does not have them in its binary logs.  --set-gtid-purged also
           controls the inclusion of a SET @@SESSION.sql_log_bin=0 statement, which disables binary
           logging while the dump file is being reloaded. This statement prevents new GTIDs from
           being generated and assigned to the transactions in the dump file as they are executed,
           so that the original GTIDs for the transactions are used.

           If you do not set the --set-gtid-purged option, the default is that a SET
           @@GLOBAL.gtid_purged statement is included in the dump output if GTIDs are enabled on the
           server you are backing up, and the set of GTIDs in the global value of the gtid_executed
           system variable is not empty. A SET @@SESSION.sql_log_bin=0 statement is also included if
           GTIDs are enabled on the server.

           You can either replace the value of gtid_purged with a specified GTID set, or add a plus
           sign (+) to the statement to append a specified GTID set to the GTID set that is already
           held by gtid_purged. The SET @@GLOBAL.gtid_purged statement recorded by mysqldump
           includes a plus sign (+) in a version-specific comment, such that MySQL adds the GTID set
           from the dump file to the existing gtid_purged value.

           It is important to note that the value that is included by mysqldump for the SET
           @@GLOBAL.gtid_purged statement includes the GTIDs of all transactions in the
           gtid_executed set on the server, even those that changed suppressed parts of the
           database, or other databases on the server that were not included in a partial dump. This
           can mean that after the gtid_purged value has been updated on the server where the dump
           file is replayed, GTIDs are present that do not relate to any data on the target server.
           If you do not replay any further dump files on the target server, the extraneous GTIDs do
           not cause any problems with the future operation of the server, but they make it harder
           to compare or reconcile GTID sets on different servers in the replication topology. If
           you do replay a further dump file on the target server that contains the same GTIDs (for
           example, another partial dump from the same origin server), any SET @@GLOBAL.gtid_purged
           statement in the second dump file fails. In this case, either remove the statement
           manually before replaying the dump file, or output the dump file without the statement.

           Before MySQL 8.0.32: Using this option with the --single-transaction option could lead to
           inconsistencies in the output. If --set-gtid-purged=ON is required, it can be used with
           --lock-all-tables, but this can prevent parallel queries while mysqldump is being run.

           If the SET @@GLOBAL.gtid_purged statement would not have the desired result on your
           target server, you can exclude the statement from the output, or (from MySQL 8.0.17)
           include it but comment it out so that it is not actioned automatically. You can also
           include the statement but manually edit it in the dump file to achieve the desired
           result.

           The possible values for the --set-gtid-purged option are as follows:

           AUTO
               The default value. If GTIDs are enabled on the server you are backing up and
               gtid_executed is not empty, SET @@GLOBAL.gtid_purged is added to the output,
               containing the GTID set from gtid_executed. If GTIDs are enabled, SET
               @@SESSION.sql_log_bin=0 is added to the output. If GTIDs are not enabled on the
               server, the statements are not added to the output.

           OFF
               SET @@GLOBAL.gtid_purged is not added to the output, and SET @@SESSION.sql_log_bin=0
               is not added to the output. For a server where GTIDs are not in use, use this option
               or AUTO. Only use this option for a server where GTIDs are in use if you are sure
               that the required GTID set is already present in gtid_purged on the target server and
               should not be changed, or if you plan to identify and add any missing GTIDs manually.

           ON
               If GTIDs are enabled on the server you are backing up, SET @@GLOBAL.gtid_purged is
               added to the output (unless gtid_executed is empty), and SET @@SESSION.sql_log_bin=0
               is added to the output. An error occurs if you set this option but GTIDs are not
               enabled on the server. For a server where GTIDs are in use, use this option or AUTO,
               unless you are sure that the GTIDs in gtid_executed are not needed on the target
               server.

           COMMENTED
               Available from MySQL 8.0.17. If GTIDs are enabled on the server you are backing up,
               SET @@GLOBAL.gtid_purged is added to the output (unless gtid_executed is empty), but
               it is commented out. This means that the value of gtid_executed is available in the
               output, but no action is taken automatically when the dump file is reloaded.  SET
               @@SESSION.sql_log_bin=0 is added to the output, and it is not commented out. With
               COMMENTED, you can control the use of the gtid_executed set manually or through
               automation. For example, you might prefer to do this if you are migrating data to
               another server that already has different active databases.
       Format Options

       The following options specify how to represent the entire dump file or certain kinds of data
       in the dump file. They also control whether certain optional information is written to the
       dump file.

       •   --compact

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --compact │
           └────────────────────┴───────────┘
           Produce more compact output. This option enables the --skip-add-drop-table,
           --skip-add-locks, --skip-comments, --skip-disable-keys, and --skip-set-charset options.

       •   --compatible=name

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --compatible=name[,name,...] │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                       │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │                              │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
           │Valid Values        │                              │
           │                    │            ansi              │
           │                    │                              │
           │                    │            mysql323          │
           │                    │                              │
           │                    │            mysql40           │
           │                    │                              │
           │                    │            postgresql        │
           │                    │                              │
           │                    │            oracle            │
           │                    │                              │
           │                    │            mssql             │
           │                    │                              │
           │                    │            db2               │
           │                    │                              │
           │                    │            maxdb             │
           │                    │                              │
           │                    │            no_key_options    │
           │                    │                              │
           │                    │            no_table_options  │
           │                    │                              │
           │                    │            no_key_options    │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘
           Produce output that is more compatible with other database systems or with older MySQL
           servers. The only permitted value for this option is ansi, which has the same meaning as
           the corresponding option for setting the server SQL mode. See Section 7.1.11, “Server SQL
           Modes”.

       •   --complete-insert, -c

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --complete-insert │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────┘
           Use complete INSERT statements that include column names.

       •   --create-options

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --create-options │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
           Include all MySQL-specific table options in the CREATE TABLE statements.

       •   --fields-terminated-by=..., --fields-enclosed-by=...,
           --fields-optionally-enclosed-by=..., --fields-escaped-by=...

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --fields-terminated-by=string │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                        │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --fields-enclosed-by=string │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                      │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --fields-optionally-enclosed- │
           │                    │ by=string                     │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                        │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --fields-escaped-by │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String              │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────────┘
           These options are used with the --tab option and have the same meaning as the
           corresponding FIELDS clauses for LOAD DATA. See Section 15.2.9, “LOAD DATA Statement”.

       •   --hex-blob

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --hex-blob │
           └────────────────────┴────────────┘
           Dump binary columns using hexadecimal notation (for example, 'abc' becomes 0x616263). The
           affected data types are BINARY, VARBINARY, BLOB types, BIT, all spatial data types, and
           other non-binary data types when used with the binary character set.

           The --hex-blob option is ignored when the --tab is used.

       •   --lines-terminated-by=...

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --lines-terminated-by=string │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                       │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘
           This option is used with the --tab option and has the same meaning as the corresponding
           LINES clause for LOAD DATA. See Section 15.2.9, “LOAD DATA Statement”.

       •   --quote-names, -Q

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --quote-names    │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────┤
           │Disabled by         │ skip-quote-names │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
           Quote identifiers (such as database, table, and column names) within ` characters. If the
           ANSI_QUOTES SQL mode is enabled, identifiers are quoted within " characters. This option
           is enabled by default. It can be disabled with --skip-quote-names, but this option should
           be given after any option such as --compatible that may enable --quote-names.

       •   --result-file=file_name, -r file_name

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --result-file=file_name │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ File name               │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
           Direct output to the named file. The result file is created and its previous contents
           overwritten, even if an error occurs while generating the dump.

           This option should be used on Windows to prevent newline \n characters from being
           converted to \r\n carriage return/newline sequences.

       •   --show-create-skip-secondary-engine=value

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --show-create-skip-secondary- │
           │                    │ engine                        │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
           │Introduced          │ 8.0.18                        │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘
           Excludes the SECONDARY ENGINE clause from CREATE TABLE statements. It does so by enabling
           the show_create_table_skip_secondary_engine system variable for the duration of the dump
           operation. Alternatively, you can enable the show_create_table_skip_secondary_engine
           system variable prior to using mysqldump.

           This option was added in MySQL 8.0.18. Attempting a mysqldump operation with the
           --show-create-skip-secondary-engine option on a release prior to MySQL 8.0.18 that does
           not support the show_create_table_skip_secondary_engine variable causes an error.

       •   --tab=dir_name, -T dir_name

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --tab=dir_name │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Directory name │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────┘
           Produce tab-separated text-format data files. For each dumped table, mysqldump creates a
           tbl_name.sql file that contains the CREATE TABLE statement that creates the table, and
           the server writes a tbl_name.txt file that contains its data. The option value is the
           directory in which to write the files.

               Note
               This option should be used only when mysqldump is run on the same machine as the
               mysqld server. Because the server creates *.txt files in the directory that you
               specify, the directory must be writable by the server and the MySQL account that you
               use must have the FILE privilege. Because mysqldump creates *.sql in the same
               directory, it must be writable by your system login account.
           By default, the .txt data files are formatted using tab characters between column values
           and a newline at the end of each line. The format can be specified explicitly using the
           --fields-xxx and --lines-terminated-by options.

           Column values are converted to the character set specified by the --default-character-set
           option.

       •   --tz-utc

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --tz-utc    │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────┤
           │Disabled by         │ skip-tz-utc │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────┘
           This option enables TIMESTAMP columns to be dumped and reloaded between servers in
           different time zones.  mysqldump sets its connection time zone to UTC and adds SET
           TIME_ZONE='+00:00' to the dump file. Without this option, TIMESTAMP columns are dumped
           and reloaded in the time zones local to the source and destination servers, which can
           cause the values to change if the servers are in different time zones.  --tz-utc also
           protects against changes due to daylight saving time.  --tz-utc is enabled by default. To
           disable it, use --skip-tz-utc.

       •   --xml, -X

           ┌────────────────────┬───────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --xml │
           └────────────────────┴───────┘
           Write dump output as well-formed XML.

           NULL, 'NULL', and Empty Values: For a column named column_name, the NULL value, an empty
           string, and the string value 'NULL' are distinguished from one another in the output
           generated by this option as follows.

           ┌─────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────┐
           │Value:XML Representation:                        │
           ├─────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤
           │NULL (unknown value) │                                            │
           │                     │            <field                          │
           │                     │            name="column_name"              │
           │                     │            xsi:nil="true" />               │
           ├─────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤
           │                     │                                            │
           │                     │            <field                          │
           │                     │            name="column_name"></field>     │
           ├─────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤
           │                     │                                            │
           │                     │            <field                          │
           │                     │            name="column_name">NULL</field> │
           └─────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────┘
           The output from the mysql client when run using the --xml option also follows the
           preceding rules. (See the section called “MYSQL CLIENT OPTIONS”.)

           XML output from mysqldump includes the XML namespace, as shown here:

               $> mysqldump --xml -u root world City
               <?xml version="1.0"?>
               <mysqldump xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
               <database name="world">
               <table_structure name="City">
               <field Field="ID" Type="int(11)" Null="NO" Key="PRI" Extra="auto_increment" />
               <field Field="Name" Type="char(35)" Null="NO" Key="" Default="" Extra="" />
               <field Field="CountryCode" Type="char(3)" Null="NO" Key="" Default="" Extra="" />
               <field Field="District" Type="char(20)" Null="NO" Key="" Default="" Extra="" />
               <field Field="Population" Type="int(11)" Null="NO" Key="" Default="0" Extra="" />
               <key Table="City" Non_unique="0" Key_name="PRIMARY" Seq_in_index="1" Column_name="ID"
               Collation="A" Cardinality="4079" Null="" Index_type="BTREE" Comment="" />
               <options Name="City" Engine="MyISAM" Version="10" Row_format="Fixed" Rows="4079"
               Avg_row_length="67" Data_length="273293" Max_data_length="18858823439613951"
               Index_length="43008" Data_free="0" Auto_increment="4080"
               Create_time="2007-03-31 01:47:01" Update_time="2007-03-31 01:47:02"
               Collation="latin1_swedish_ci" Create_options="" Comment="" />
               </table_structure>
               <table_data name="City">
               <row>
               <field name="ID">1</field>
               <field name="Name">Kabul</field>
               <field name="CountryCode">AFG</field>
               <field name="District">Kabol</field>
               <field name="Population">1780000</field>
               </row>
               ...
               <row>
               <field name="ID">4079</field>
               <field name="Name">Rafah</field>
               <field name="CountryCode">PSE</field>
               <field name="District">Rafah</field>
               <field name="Population">92020</field>
               </row>
               </table_data>
               </database>
               </mysqldump>
       Filtering Options

       The following options control which kinds of schema objects are written to the dump file: by
       category, such as triggers or events; by name, for example, choosing which databases and
       tables to dump; or even filtering rows from the table data using a WHERE clause.

       •   --all-databases, -A

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --all-databases │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────┘
           Dump all tables in all databases. This is the same as using the --databases option and
           naming all the databases on the command line.

               Note
               See the --add-drop-database description for information about an incompatibility of
               that option with --all-databases.
           Prior to MySQL 8.0, the --routines and --events options for mysqldump and mysqlpump were
           not required to include stored routines and events when using the --all-databases option:
           The dump included the mysql system database, and therefore also the mysql.proc and
           mysql.event tables containing stored routine and event definitions. As of MySQL 8.0, the
           mysql.event and mysql.proc tables are not used. Definitions for the corresponding objects
           are stored in data dictionary tables, but those tables are not dumped. To include stored
           routines and events in a dump made using --all-databases, use the --routines and --events
           options explicitly.

       •   --databases, -B

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --databases │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────┘
           Dump several databases. Normally, mysqldump treats the first name argument on the command
           line as a database name and following names as table names. With this option, it treats
           all name arguments as database names.  CREATE DATABASE and USE statements are included in
           the output before each new database.

           This option may be used to dump the performance_schema database, which normally is not
           dumped even with the --all-databases option. (Also use the --skip-lock-tables option.)

               Note
               See the --add-drop-database description for information about an incompatibility of
               that option with --databases.

       •   --events, -E

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --events │
           └────────────────────┴──────────┘
           Include Event Scheduler events for the dumped databases in the output. This option
           requires the EVENT privileges for those databases.

           The output generated by using --events contains CREATE EVENT statements to create the
           events.

       •   --ignore-error=error[,error]...

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --ignore-error=error[,error]... │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                          │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘
           Ignore the specified errors. The option value is a list of comma-separated error numbers
           specifying the errors to ignore during mysqldump execution. If the --force option is also
           given to ignore all errors, --force takes precedence.

       •   --ignore-table=db_name.tbl_name

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --ignore-table=db_name.tbl_name │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                          │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘
           Do not dump the given table, which must be specified using both the database and table
           names. To ignore multiple tables, use this option multiple times. This option also can be
           used to ignore views.

       •   --no-data, -d

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --no-data │
           └────────────────────┴───────────┘
           Do not write any table row information (that is, do not dump table contents). This is
           useful if you want to dump only the CREATE TABLE statement for the table (for example, to
           create an empty copy of the table by loading the dump file).

       •   --routines, -R

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --routines │
           └────────────────────┴────────────┘
           Include stored routines (procedures and functions) for the dumped databases in the
           output. This option requires the global SELECT privilege.

           The output generated by using --routines contains CREATE PROCEDURE and CREATE FUNCTION
           statements to create the routines.

       •   --skip-generated-invisible-primary-key

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --skip-generated-invisible- │
           │                    │ primary-key                 │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
           │Introduced          │ 8.0.30                      │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Boolean                     │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ FALSE                       │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
           This option is available beginning with MySQL 8.0.30, and causes generated invisible
           primary keys to be excluded from the output. For more information, see
           Section 15.1.20.11, “Generated Invisible Primary Keys”.

       •   --tables

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --tables │
           └────────────────────┴──────────┘
           Override the --databases or -B option.  mysqldump regards all name arguments following
           the option as table names.

       •   --triggers

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --triggers    │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────┤
           │Disabled by         │ skip-triggers │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────┘
           Include triggers for each dumped table in the output. This option is enabled by default;
           disable it with --skip-triggers.

           To be able to dump a table's triggers, you must have the TRIGGER privilege for the table.

           Multiple triggers are permitted.  mysqldump dumps triggers in activation order so that
           when the dump file is reloaded, triggers are created in the same activation order.
           However, if a mysqldump dump file contains multiple triggers for a table that have the
           same trigger event and action time, an error occurs for attempts to load the dump file
           into an older server that does not support multiple triggers. (For a workaround, see
           Downgrade Notes[4]; you can convert triggers to be compatible with older servers.)

       •   --where='where_condition', -w 'where_condition'

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --where='where_condition' │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
           Dump only rows selected by the given WHERE condition. Quotes around the condition are
           mandatory if it contains spaces or other characters that are special to your command
           interpreter.

           Examples:

               --where="user='jimf'"
               -w"userid>1"
               -w"userid<1"
       Performance Options

       The following options are the most relevant for the performance particularly of the restore
       operations. For large data sets, restore operation (processing the INSERT statements in the
       dump file) is the most time-consuming part. When it is urgent to restore data quickly, plan
       and test the performance of this stage in advance. For restore times measured in hours, you
       might prefer an alternative backup and restore solution, such as MySQL Enterprise Backup for
       InnoDB-only and mixed-use databases.

       Performance is also affected by the transactional options, primarily for the dump operation.

       •   --column-statistics

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --column-statistics │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Boolean             │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ OFF                 │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────────┘
           Add ANALYZE TABLE statements to the output to generate histogram statistics for dumped
           tables when the dump file is reloaded. This option is disabled by default because
           histogram generation for large tables can take a long time.

       •   --disable-keys, -K

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --disable-keys │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────┘
           For each table, surround the INSERT statements with /*!40000 ALTER TABLE tbl_name DISABLE
           KEYS */; and /*!40000 ALTER TABLE tbl_name ENABLE KEYS */; statements. This makes loading
           the dump file faster because the indexes are created after all rows are inserted. This
           option is effective only for nonunique indexes of MyISAM tables.

       •   --extended-insert, -e

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --extended-insert    │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
           │Disabled by         │ skip-extended-insert │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
           Write INSERT statements using multiple-row syntax that includes several VALUES lists.
           This results in a smaller dump file and speeds up inserts when the file is reloaded.

       •   --insert-ignore

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --insert-ignore │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────┘
           Write INSERT IGNORE statements rather than INSERT statements.

       •   --max-allowed-packet=value

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --max-allowed-packet=value │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Numeric                    │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ 25165824                   │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┘
           The maximum size of the buffer for client/server communication. The default is 24MB, the
           maximum is 1GB.

               Note
               The value of this option is specific to mysqldump and should not be confused with the
               MySQL server's max_allowed_packet system variable; the server value cannot be
               exceeded by a single packet from mysqldump, regardless of any setting for the
               mysqldump option, even if the latter is larger.

       •   --mysqld-long-query-time=value

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --mysqld-long-query-time=value │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
           │Introduced          │ 8.0.30                         │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Numeric                        │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ Server global setting          │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘
           Set the session value of the long_query_time system variable. Use this option, which is
           available from MySQL 8.0.30, if you want to increase the time allowed for queries from
           mysqldump before they are logged to the slow query log file.  mysqldump performs a full
           table scan, which means its queries can often exceed a global long_query_time setting
           that is useful for regular queries. The default global setting is 10 seconds.

           You can use --mysqld-long-query-time to specify a session value from 0 (meaning that
           every query from mysqldump is logged to the slow query log) to 31536000, which is 365
           days in seconds. For mysqldump’s option, you can only specify whole seconds. When you do
           not specify this option, the server’s global setting applies to mysqldump’s queries.

       •   --net-buffer-length=value

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --net-buffer-length=value │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Numeric                   │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ 16384                     │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
           The initial size of the buffer for client/server communication. When creating
           multiple-row INSERT statements (as with the --extended-insert or --opt option), mysqldump
           creates rows up to --net-buffer-length bytes long. If you increase this variable, ensure
           that the MySQL server net_buffer_length system variable has a value at least this large.

       •   --network-timeout, -M

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --network-timeout[={0|1}] │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Boolean                   │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ TRUE                      │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
           Enable large tables to be dumped by setting --max-allowed-packet to its maximum value and
           network read and write timeouts to a large value. This option is enabled by default. To
           disable it, use --skip-network-timeout.

       •   --opt

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --opt    │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────┤
           │Disabled by         │ skip-opt │
           └────────────────────┴──────────┘
           This option, enabled by default, is shorthand for the combination of --add-drop-table
           --add-locks --create-options --disable-keys --extended-insert --lock-tables --quick
           --set-charset. It gives a fast dump operation and produces a dump file that can be
           reloaded into a MySQL server quickly.

           Because the --opt option is enabled by default, you only specify its converse, the
           --skip-opt to turn off several default settings. See the discussion of mysqldump option
           groups for information about selectively enabling or disabling a subset of the options
           affected by --opt.

       •   --quick, -q

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --quick    │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────┤
           │Disabled by         │ skip-quick │
           └────────────────────┴────────────┘
           This option is useful for dumping large tables. It forces mysqldump to retrieve rows for
           a table from the server a row at a time rather than retrieving the entire row set and
           buffering it in memory before writing it out.

       •   --skip-opt

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --skip-opt │
           └────────────────────┴────────────┘
           See the description for the --opt option.
       Transactional Options

       The following options trade off the performance of the dump operation, against the
       reliability and consistency of the exported data.

       •   --add-locks

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --add-locks │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────┘
           Surround each table dump with LOCK TABLES and UNLOCK TABLES statements. This results in
           faster inserts when the dump file is reloaded. See Section 10.2.5.1, “Optimizing INSERT
           Statements”.

       •   --flush-logs, -F

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --flush-logs │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────┘
           Flush the MySQL server log files before starting the dump. This option requires the
           RELOAD privilege. If you use this option in combination with the --all-databases option,
           the logs are flushed for each database dumped. The exception is when using
           --lock-all-tables, --source-data or --master-data, or --single-transaction. In these
           cases, the logs are flushed only once, corresponding to the moment that all tables are
           locked by FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK. If you want your dump and the log flush to happen
           at exactly the same moment, you should use --flush-logs together with --lock-all-tables,
           --source-data or --master-data, or --single-transaction.

       •   --flush-privileges

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --flush-privileges │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────────┘
           Add a FLUSH PRIVILEGES statement to the dump output after dumping the mysql database.
           This option should be used any time the dump contains the mysql database and any other
           database that depends on the data in the mysql database for proper restoration.

           Because the dump file contains a FLUSH PRIVILEGES statement, reloading the file requires
           privileges sufficient to execute that statement.


               Note
               For upgrades to MySQL 5.7 or higher from older versions, do not use
               --flush-privileges. For upgrade instructions in this case, see Section 3.5, “Changes
               in MySQL 8.0”.

       •   --lock-all-tables, -x

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --lock-all-tables │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────┘
           Lock all tables across all databases. This is achieved by acquiring a global read lock
           for the duration of the whole dump. This option automatically turns off
           --single-transaction and --lock-tables.

       •   --lock-tables, -l

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --lock-tables │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────┘
           For each dumped database, lock all tables to be dumped before dumping them. The tables
           are locked with READ LOCAL to permit concurrent inserts in the case of MyISAM tables. For
           transactional tables such as InnoDB, --single-transaction is a much better option than
           --lock-tables because it does not need to lock the tables at all.

           Because --lock-tables locks tables for each database separately, this option does not
           guarantee that the tables in the dump file are logically consistent between databases.
           Tables in different databases may be dumped in completely different states.

           Some options, such as --opt, automatically enable --lock-tables. If you want to override
           this, use --skip-lock-tables at the end of the option list.

       •   --no-autocommit

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --no-autocommit │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────┘
           Enclose the INSERT statements for each dumped table within SET autocommit = 0 and COMMIT
           statements.

       •   --order-by-primary

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --order-by-primary │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────────┘
           Dump each table's rows sorted by its primary key, or by its first unique index, if such
           an index exists. This is useful when dumping a MyISAM table to be loaded into an InnoDB
           table, but makes the dump operation take considerably longer.

       •   --shared-memory-base-name=name

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --shared-memory-base-name=name │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
           │Platform Specific   │ Windows                        │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘
           On Windows, the shared-memory name to use for connections made using shared memory to a
           local server. The default value is MYSQL. The shared-memory name is case-sensitive.

           This option applies only if the server was started with the shared_memory system variable
           enabled to support shared-memory connections.

       •   --single-transaction

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --single-transaction │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
           This option sets the transaction isolation mode to REPEATABLE READ and sends a START
           TRANSACTION SQL statement to the server before dumping data. It is useful only with
           transactional tables such as InnoDB, because then it dumps the consistent state of the
           database at the time when START TRANSACTION was issued without blocking any applications.

           The RELOAD or FLUSH_TABLES privilege is required with --single-transaction if both
           gtid_mode=ON and gtid_purged=ON|AUTO. This requirement was added in MySQL 8.0.32.

           When using this option, you should keep in mind that only InnoDB tables are dumped in a
           consistent state. For example, any MyISAM or MEMORY tables dumped while using this option
           may still change state.

           While a --single-transaction dump is in process, to ensure a valid dump file (correct
           table contents and binary log coordinates), no other connection should use the following
           statements: ALTER TABLE, CREATE TABLE, DROP TABLE, RENAME TABLE, TRUNCATE TABLE. A
           consistent read is not isolated from those statements, so use of them on a table to be
           dumped can cause the SELECT that is performed by mysqldump to retrieve the table contents
           to obtain incorrect contents or fail.

           The --single-transaction option and the --lock-tables option are mutually exclusive
           because LOCK TABLES causes any pending transactions to be committed implicitly.

           Before 8.0.32: Using --single-transaction together with the --set-gtid-purged option was
           not recommended; doing so could lead to inconsistencies in the output of mysqldump.

           To dump large tables, combine the --single-transaction option with the --quick option.
       Option Groups

       •   The --opt option turns on several settings that work together to perform a fast dump
           operation. All of these settings are on by default, because --opt is on by default. Thus
           you rarely if ever specify --opt. Instead, you can turn these settings off as a group by
           specifying --skip-opt, then optionally re-enable certain settings by specifying the
           associated options later on the command line.

       •   The --compact option turns off several settings that control whether optional statements
           and comments appear in the output. Again, you can follow this option with other options
           that re-enable certain settings, or turn all the settings on by using the --skip-compact
           form.

       When you selectively enable or disable the effect of a group option, order is important
       because options are processed first to last. For example, --disable-keys --lock-tables
       --skip-opt would not have the intended effect; it is the same as --skip-opt by itself.
       Examples

       To make a backup of an entire database:

           mysqldump db_name > backup-file.sql

       To load the dump file back into the server:

           mysql db_name < backup-file.sql

       Another way to reload the dump file:

           mysql -e "source /path-to-backup/backup-file.sql" db_name

       mysqldump is also very useful for populating databases by copying data from one MySQL server
       to another:

           mysqldump --opt db_name | mysql --host=remote_host -C db_name

       You can dump several databases with one command:

           mysqldump --databases db_name1 [db_name2 ...] > my_databases.sql

       To dump all databases, use the --all-databases option:

           mysqldump --all-databases > all_databases.sql

       For InnoDB tables, mysqldump provides a way of making an online backup:

           mysqldump --all-databases --master-data --single-transaction > all_databases.sql

       Or, in MySQL 8.0.26 and later:

           mysqldump --all-databases --source-data --single-transaction > all_databases.sql

       This backup acquires a global read lock on all tables (using FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK) at
       the beginning of the dump. As soon as this lock has been acquired, the binary log coordinates
       are read and the lock is released. If long updating statements are running when the FLUSH
       statement is issued, the MySQL server may get stalled until those statements finish. After
       that, the dump becomes lock free and does not disturb reads and writes on the tables. If the
       update statements that the MySQL server receives are short (in terms of execution time), the
       initial lock period should not be noticeable, even with many updates.

       For point-in-time recovery (also known as “roll-forward,” when you need to restore an old
       backup and replay the changes that happened since that backup), it is often useful to rotate
       the binary log (see Section 7.4.4, “The Binary Log”) or at least know the binary log
       coordinates to which the dump corresponds:

           mysqldump --all-databases --master-data=2 > all_databases.sql

       Or, in MySQL 8.0.26 and later:

           mysqldump --all-databases --source-data=2 > all_databases.sql

       Or:

           mysqldump --all-databases --flush-logs --master-data=2 > all_databases.sql

       Or, in MySQL 8.0.26 and later:

           mysqldump --all-databases --flush-logs --source-data=2 > all_databases.sql

       The --source-data or --master-data option can be used simultaneously with the
       --single-transaction option, which provides a convenient way to make an online backup
       suitable for use prior to point-in-time recovery if tables are stored using the InnoDB
       storage engine.

       For more information on making backups, see Section 9.2, “Database Backup Methods”, and
       Section 9.3, “Example Backup and Recovery Strategy”.

       •   To select the effect of --opt except for some features, use the --skip option for each
           feature. To disable extended inserts and memory buffering, use --opt
           --skip-extended-insert --skip-quick. (Actually, --skip-extended-insert --skip-quick is
           sufficient because --opt is on by default.)

       •   To reverse --opt for all features except disabling of indexes and table locking, use
           --skip-opt --disable-keys --lock-tables.
       Restrictions

       mysqldump does not dump the performance_schema or sys schema by default. To dump any of
       these, name them explicitly on the command line. You can also name them with the --databases
       option. For performance_schema, also use the --skip-lock-tables option.

       mysqldump does not dump the INFORMATION_SCHEMA schema.

       mysqldump does not dump InnoDB CREATE TABLESPACE statements.

       mysqldump does not dump the NDB Cluster ndbinfo information database.

       mysqldump includes statements to recreate the general_log and slow_query_log tables for dumps
       of the mysql database. Log table contents are not dumped.

       If you encounter problems backing up views due to insufficient privileges, see Section 27.9,
       “Restrictions on Views” for a workaround.

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NOTES
        1. MySQL Shell dump utilities
           https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-shell/8.0/en/mysql-shell-utilities-dump-instance-schema.html

        2. MySQL Shell load dump utilities
           https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-shell/8.0/en/mysql-shell-utilities-load-dump.html

        3. here
           https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-shell/8.0/en/mysql-shell-install.html

        4. Downgrade Notes
           https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/downgrading-to-previous-series.html

SEE ALSO
       For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which may already be
       installed locally and which is also available online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.

AUTHOR
       Oracle Corporation (http://dev.mysql.com/).



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